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Sweden, a top manufacturer of pouches, halted an effort to raise taxes on the popular product as the bloc debates how to handle it and other addictive alternatives to cigarettes.

Scrutiny by the EU ombudsman comes after an investigation by The Examination and Politico revealed EU staff took actions that would have benefited Philip Morris International.

The move comes after The Examination and Politico reported that those meetings could violate a global public health treaty.

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

China Tobacco’s products have likely caused at least 57 million deaths since 1990. No other company comes close, our analysis shows.

We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

Funded by the maple industry, a researcher has exaggerated his findings to suggest that syrup could help prevent serious diseases.

Fueled by misleading marketing claims, the German drugmaker’s painkiller tapentadol is on the rise.

Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, is a poisonous gas that saturates the Permian Basin of West Texas and other oil-production regions. Here's how leaks happen and why they can be dangerous.